If high school is the place where everyone is supposed to get pigeonholed, nobody told Sarah Rock.

The 18-year-old recent graduate of Westmont High School was involved in so many different clubs and activities during her four years as a Warrior that it would be impossible to put one label on her.

“I am perfectly OK with being one of a kind,” Rock said. “It’s fun to explore different things.”

The standout student managed to keep up with her studies while also getting involved in a gamut of extracurricular activities including music, drama, agriculture, robotics, model United Nations and creative writing.

Although Rock said she found enjoyment in each and every club she belonged to, agriculture and robotics were at the top of the science-minded student’s long list of Westmont hobbies.

“The agriculture program is very special to Westmont,” she said, explaining that there’s a farm on school grounds.

Rock joined Westmont’s Future Farmers of America or FFA club as a freshman and remained heavily involved until she graduated. She was a delegate for the team her junior year and acted as secretary her senior year.

Rock explained that the agriculture club became hugely popular for the real-world experiences it provided to students. She loves both the agricultural aspects of the club like learning how to raise chickens, goats and pigs, as well as the business side of the program which involved visiting meat markets and participating in the Santa Clara County Fair.

However, her other favorite Westmont club had about as little to do with farm animals as a pig has to do with computers.

Her junior year, Rock joined the Robotics Club as part of the marketing team and amped up her involvement during her senior year as part of the mechanical engineering crew. She explained that the main activity of the club is to participate in the FRC (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics Competition), an annual event to test the innovation of thousands of high school students from across the country.

“Each year, FRC gives out a challenge in January, and you have six weeks to build a robot that fits with this challenge,” Rock said. “This year we had an aerial assist, which a lot of people referred to as an aerial assault,” she added with a laugh. “We were given a yoga ball that was 2 feet in diameter, and we had to pick it up and pass it and then toss it into a goal that was 7 feet up in the air.”

Rock said the challenges she worked on with her classmates were not only a lot of fun to tackle, but they gave her a taste of what her future will be like when she pursues engineering at San Jose State University this fall.

Rock is not entirely sure where her education will lead her in the work force, but she’s hopeful her experience in robotics at Westmont will be just the beginning.

“My parents both believe I will probably end up working for a small company with a military contract, but I don’t know,” she said. “NASA would be fun. I’d love to see if I could get some things into space.”

But before she designs the robot of the future, she plans on enjoying her time in college by doing what she does best: getting involved. She hopes to join the Baja team, a club that builds a racecar every year, and she’d like to continue singing with an SJSU choir.

It is this same adventurousness and willingness to try new things that she encourages all future Warriors to embody.

“There are tons and tons of different opportunities at Westmont,” Rock said. “Colleges expect you to be involved in one thing for as long as possible, but I don’t believe that’s the best thing.

“An incoming freshman isn’t going to know what they like. I think they should try as many different things as possible to see what they end up liking. You never know: Something could catch your attention and surprise you.”

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